Gregoire’s pension check nearly $160,000 a year
An exemption made for elected officials in an old pension plan has helped former Gov. Chris Gregoire — at $159,608 a year — become the highest-paid pensioner from state government.
Issues
Federal food safety regulations could affect Kitsap’s small farmers
Federal regulations aimed at improving food safety and protecting public health could affect Kitsap’s small farmers who sell produce from their farms and at area farmers markets.
Job-killing tax increases are not needed
Let's say this right up front. If the Legislature does nothing this year to raise fees or increase taxes, the state is still expected to take in an additional $2 billion over the current budget cycle. Two billion more without tax increases!
Boeing to shed 1,500 IT jobs here over next three years
Boeing will inform its information-technology workers Monday that 1,500 IT jobs in the Puget Sound region will go away in the next three years through a combination of layoffs, attrition and relocation to Missouri and South Carolina.
PUD to pay down $250 million in debt by 2017
Now free of its contractual obligations to pay for dam upgrades and projects by issuing bonds, the Chelan County PUD plans to pay down total debt by about $250 million over the next five years. Total debt would drop from the current $821 million to about $618 million in 2017. It topped $1 billion in 2009.
